Tom will do Fred justice he has the smarts, sensitivity and chops to pull it off.

by Anonymous

reply 4

09/27/2018

I’m damn near wearing that same outfit today.

by Anonymous

reply 5

09/27/2018

I'm sure Hanks will do a fine job and get nominated again. I just wish they'd leave some things alone and allow us to have our memories without spreading on a layer of hollywood frosting. Not necessary. He was an original, a one off. Leave it that way.

by Anonymous

reply 6

09/27/2018

I will not rest until I have portrayed every single real-life famous admirable mensch-type figure!

by Anonymous

reply 7

09/27/2018

He looks as authentic as Mr. Rogers as he did as Walt Disney.

by Anonymous

reply 8

09/27/2018

Mr. Rogers had herpes??

by Anonymous

reply 9

09/27/2018

Forrest Rodgers. NO FANK YOU!

by Anonymous

reply 10

09/27/2018

I hope its being made on a low budget because I don't think anyone outside of the US is familiar with the man that it is based on.

by Anonymous

reply 11

09/27/2018

I wonder if TH is actually proud that he is the most middle brow actor of his generation?

by Anonymous

reply 12

09/27/2018

He's always just TH playing a character. You never forget it is TH pretending to be someone else.

by Anonymous

reply 13

09/27/2018

Not true R11. It was always broadcast in Canada.

So many of Hanks movies include him urinating. Please let this one be pee-free.

by Anonymous

reply 14

09/27/2018

I won't be seeing it. They have to monetize and ruin everything, but I don't have to buy in.

by Anonymous

reply 15

09/27/2018

Tom looks really good with all the weight loss.

by Anonymous

reply 16

09/27/2018

A first-rate documentary has already been made about Fred Rodgers. This is bullshit and I'm sick of Hanks playing deities.

by Anonymous

reply 17

09/27/2018

That's because Banks wants to be a deity.

by Anonymous

reply 18

09/27/2018

I will never stop making money off dead people!

by Anonymous

reply 19

09/27/2018

I'm getting kind of tired of Hanks playing all these biographical roles....he always seems like he's playing himself and I never truly believe he is the person he is portraying.

Closest he came was Road to Perdition, R21. He was an anti-hero, but the fact is that he was a gangster who killed anyone his boss (Paul Newman) ordered him to.

by Anonymous

reply 23

09/27/2018

no. just no.

by Anonymous

reply 24

09/27/2018

He looked nothing like Walt Disney in that film.

by Anonymous

reply 25

09/27/2018

Walt Disney was an evil fuck. We can thank him for the mass delusion distraction with his multiple, shiny piles of shit he peddled as 'entertainment' while our democracy died. Thanks, Mickey.

by Anonymous

reply 26

09/27/2018

Gag me with a spoon.

by Anonymous

reply 27

09/27/2018

Charlton Heston used to be the go-to guy for Mr. Bigger-Than-Life; Tom Hanks is now the go-to guy for Mr. Nice. Sorry, but I'll take Chuck in his loincloth any day.

by Anonymous

reply 28

09/29/2018

Tom Hanks is a national treasure.

by Anonymous

reply 29

09/29/2018

The people of Pittsburgh seem happy with Hanks and they inew him best.

by Anonymous

reply 30

09/29/2018

r13, I disagree. In both Forrest Gump, and Philadelphia he completely gets lost in the roles. I don't think anyone could have pulled off Forrest Gump the way he does. A truly original character, and groundbreaking performance.

by Anonymous

reply 31

09/29/2018

He doesn't necessarily look like Rodgers here, but I can picture a higher pitched Forrest Gump sounding somewhat like Rodgers.

by Anonymous

reply 32

09/29/2018

He played a slimy character in Cloud Atlas. Also played a hero in Cloud Atlas, but he did a great job at the slimy part. He was rather slimy in Ladykillers as well.

by Anonymous

reply 33

09/29/2018

R14 OK then. Outside of North America then.

by Anonymous

reply 34

09/29/2018

This was Tom Hanks' greatest role.

by Anonymous

reply 35

09/29/2018

Learn to spell, dumbass

by Anonymous

reply 36

09/29/2018

D-U-M-B-A-S-S

Dumbass.

by Anonymous

reply 37

09/29/2018

He looks like the Pedophile we always suspected Fred Rogers to be but he wasn't.

by Anonymous

reply 38

09/29/2018

[quote]He's always just TH playing a character. You never forget it is TH pretending to be someone else.

How dare you!, r13?

by Anonymous

reply 39

09/29/2018

Well, it's definitely not going to be a documentary, because Mr. Rodgers wasn't a mean drunk with fuzzy rightwing leanings....

by Anonymous

reply 40

09/29/2018

Why should Mr. Rogers be white? He was a black man; Eddie Murphy played him . More Hollywood racism.

by Anonymous

reply 41

09/29/2018

If Hilary Swank married him she would be Swallowing Hanksl

by Anonymous

reply 42

09/29/2018

Sorry for being out of the loop, but why the sudden influx of interest in Fred Rogers? They made that documentary about him last year, there's this version with TH being made, and Google had a Fred Rogers doodle recently (which I don't has been done before). When I kept hearing about FR all of a sudden, I assumed that he had died recently or something but turns out he died 15 years ago.

by Anonymous

reply 43

10/05/2018

Maybe the darkness of our current political climate makes people yearn for simple, gentler, more innocent times and feel-good stories.

I don't know why this movie is necessary, though, when there is a widely acclaimed recent documentary you can watch instead. I hate biopics as a rule.

by Anonymous

reply 44

10/05/2018

Hi Tom at R4.

by Anonymous

reply 45

10/05/2018

[quote]I don't know why this movie is necessary, though, when there is a widely acclaimed recent documentary you can watch instead. I hate biopics as a rule

It's also weird that they decided to go with calling the TH movie "You Are My Friend," which is frankly odd and creepy-sounding, because they couldn't call it "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" (which actually was Fred Roger's catchphrase, and the title of the documentary from last year).

Why couldn't they have just called it "Mr. Rogers" or "The Fred Rogers Story" or something.

by Anonymous

reply 46

10/06/2018

"You Are My Friend" is the title of one of Mr. Rogers' songs.

by Anonymous

reply 47

10/06/2018

Fred Rogers' corpse wants you all to leave him alone and let him rest already. Damn!

by Anonymous

reply 48

10/06/2018

Meow meow meow meow meow, meow meow & meow.

Meow?

by Anonymous

reply 49

10/06/2018

who the fuck is "Mr. Rodgers"? how the fuck can they sell this outside America?

by Anonymous

reply 50

10/06/2018

Was Mr. R gay? I think so.

by Anonymous

reply 51

10/06/2018

Mr. R in his twink years

by Anonymous

reply 52

10/06/2018

A crew member died working on this pointless movie. Clearly it's cursed.

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